Discussions on autonomy in the recepcion of the dependency contributions to de field of international relations and recent contributions from the global value chains approach

Abstract

The dependency theory is recognized in the world of International Relations as one of the main contributors to the field from Latin American countries. In this paper we propose the objective of identifying the characteristics of the reception of dependentist contributions under the hypothesis that this has been mediated by the developments of the Latin American school of Autonomy and not by the contributions of those who are considered the canonical dependentist authors in the field of Political Economy. What we will observe is that the concept of autonomy used by the Latin American school is considerably different from the one used by the Political Economy. In addition to a critical balance, a proposal is made to incorporate the problem of global value chains into the autonomy analysis framework.